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Man convicted of “Moharebeh” (waging waragainstGod)makes victory sign beforebeing hanged. (Source: Iran Human Rights) The Iranian regime's henchmen hanged a man in public in a main square in the northeastern city of Mashhad on Saturday.The state-run news outlets are running copies of a short story on Saturday describing the executed man a 'thug'.
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The Massachusetts Legislature abolished the state's death penalty in 1984As Massachusetts braces for the upcoming death penalty trial of the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, the state's other death penalty defendant is also heading back to court: Gary Lee Sampson, a drifter from Abington
USS ColeThe defense team for a Saudi man accused of organizing the attack on the USS Cole asked a Guantanamo Bay judge Wednesday to stop him from facing capital punishment.Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri faces the death penalty if convicted of charges stemming the Cole suicide bombing, and from the attack
What would change among young people and in the world if role plays dealt with human rights?In Italy it recently happened with "Precious. The most precious thing". The first role-playing game on the topic of death penalty, carried out by Coyote Press in collaboration with Amnesty International07
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Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler said Thursday that the state does not have the legal authority to execute the 4 men who remain on death row following the legislature's decision last year to abolish capital punishment.The legislation, championed by Gov. Martin O'Malley (D), did not06
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Michael HomickSAN QUENTIN (AP) — State prisons officials say a San Quentin death row inmate convicted of two 1985 murders in Los Angeles has died of natural causes.California’s Department of Corrections says 74-year-old Michael Homick was pronounced dead Wednesday at 11:26 a.m. at a hospital near
Blasphemy allegations lead to protestsA Christian couple in Pakistan have been beaten to death by an angry crowd after being accused of desecrating a Koran, police say.Their bodies were burned at the brick kiln where they worked in the town of Kot Radha Kishan in Punjab
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James Holmes and attorneyA judge overseeing the Colorado theater massacre case will let jurors in the upcoming murder trial of James Holmes see a video of the accused gunman's sanity examination, court documents showed on Monday.Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to shooting dead01
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October 28, 2014: A 29-year-old Malaysian condemned to hang in 2009 for drug trafficking had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment as he was intellectually challenged and suffering from depression at the time.Wilkinson Primus, who looked relaxed in court, was spared the gallows under31
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James Holmes and attorneyDefense lawyers in the Colorado theater massacre case want a 2nd court-ordered sanity examination undergone by accused gunman James Holmes barred from his upcoming murder trial, court documents on Thursday showed.Public defenders filed "a motion to strike" or limit the
In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US Supreme Court put a murderer's execution on hold this week, a rare moment when a defense was able to slow, if only temporarily, the inexorable wheels of justice.Hundreds of miles from the grim cell blocks of America's death row prisons, the lofty halls of the30
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North Korea has reportedly publicly executed at least 50 people this year, including several party officials for watching soap operas.According to South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS), Pyongyang has purged about 10 officials from Kim Jong-un's Workers' Party for watching South Korean10
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12 prisoners were hanged inside the Orumiyeh Central Prison between October 18 and October 29, 9 of these for drug trafficking crimes, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned.According to a source, on October 18, 2014, 5 inmates sentenced to death on drug-related charges08
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Public flogging in IranA Supreme Court branch reviewing the appeal request in the case of Soheil Arabi, a man convicted of "sabb al-nabi" (insulting the Prophet) and sentenced to death, will soon announce its ruling, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran."The Judge08
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Gallows (R) and control room (L) at Tokyo Detention CenterA former death row inmate cleared of murder is giving new life to a fund that tries to help those facing execution secure a retrial.Masao Akahori, 85, spent more than 30 years on death row for the murder of a 6-year-old girl
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A victims' rights organization sued California state officials on Thursday as it seeks to speed up executions that have been on hold since 2006.Sacramento-based Criminal Justice Legal Foundation filed a petition in Sacramento County Superior Court asking a judge to order state corrections05
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaThe beheading on Wednesday raises to 64 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom in 2014.Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani on Wednesday for trafficking heroin hidden in his stomach into the kingdom, the interior ministry said, the latest in Leggi
Dhaka: The execution of Bangladesh's 1971 war crimes convict and fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Quamrazzaman is now "only a matter of time," the country's top law officer today said."The execution is only a matter of time," Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told newsmen after 1004
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Andrew Chan and Myuran SukumaranJakarta: Indonesia's former president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, failed to save two Australians from death row before he left office last month, leaving their fate in the hands of the administration.Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, members of the so-called Bali01
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Prominent Saudi Arabian Shi’a Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr has been sentenced to death on vague charges and after a deeply flawed trial. His conviction must be quashed and he should be released immediately in relation to these charges.View the full Urgent Action, including case information31
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Reyhaneh JabbariNCRI – In the first public remarks from a close relative of Reyhaneh Jabbari, new details of the Iranian regime torturing her physically and psychologically, starting immediately after her arrest in 2009, have been revealed.During a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday, Ms
After it took 2 hours and 15 doses of lethal-injection drugs for the state to execute convicted murderer Joseph Wood in July, the state's death penalty procedure is still in limbo.A lawsuit in federal court, filed by both current death-row prisoners and a legal group representing media30
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Reyhaneh JabbariNCRI – The government of Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, on Wednesday, endorsed the brutal execution of 26-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari and rejected worldwide condemnation of her hanging as “meddling in a judicial case.”Despite the international calls to spare her life, the Iranian regime10
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Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal will issue a death warrant for Mohammad Kamaruzzaman once it gets a copy of the Appellate Division verdict, the attorney general has said.Whether a summary or the full verdict will be sent depends on the Appellate Division, Mahbubey Alam said on Sunday."We'll know
Human Rights Minister Yasonna LaolyThe minister who will advise Indonesia's new president on whether to grant clemency to 2 Australians says he's personally against the death penalty.Indonesia's former president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, failed to sign a decree commuting the death sentences of
November 7, 2014: Saudi Arabia beheaded two Pakistanis for drug smuggling between 5 and 6 November. On 5 November, Mohammed Sadiq Hanif was executed in the eastern town of Khubar for his attempt to smuggle "a large amount" of heroin hidden in his stomach into the kingdom, the Interior Ministry06
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Republicans retained their near lock on judgeships on the state's 2 highest courts Tuesday, winning all 4 contested races in the Supreme Court and all three places on the Court of Criminal Appeals.In Supreme Court races, all the incumbents were declared victors by the Associated Press early in the05
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Texas' highest criminal court on Wednesday threw out the 2005 conviction and death sentence of Alfred Dewayne Brown after finding that the Harris County District Attorney's Office withheld material evidence favorable to Brown's case.In a brief order, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals sent the05
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Alstory SimonJudge rules Alstory Simon may have been coerced into 1999 confession that led to release of man originally convicted of murders, Anthony PorterA man whose whose taped confession to a 1982 double-murder in Chicago damned himself but helped free a death row prisoner has been released01
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October 29, 2014: Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Motiur Rahman Nizami was awarded death sentence for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. The three-member International Crimes Tribunal 1, led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim, delivered the verdict at 12:20pm on Wednesday (October
Han Lei (photo: AP)A Chinese man who killed a two-year-old girl after a row with her mother over a parking space was executed on Friday, a court said.Han Lei was convicted of taking the child from her pram and throwing her to the ground after her mother refused to make way
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Public execution in Shiraz, Iran, September 2014Head of Supreme Human Rights Council in Iranian regime’s judiciary says executions are part of fighting narcotics and world should be grateful to us for thatNCRI - Along with the anti-human crime of throwing acid into the faces of defenseless women30
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The lawyers of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman convicted of blasphemy, are set to appeal against her death penalty in the Supreme Court. Activists say the case will serve as a test for human rights in Pakistan.Asia Bibi has been languishing in prison for more than five years. The
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the decks for the execution of Nithari serial killer Surinder Koli after it dismissed his plea seeking review of the judgment upholding death penalty.A Bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justices Madan B. Lokur and A.K. Sikri dismissed the review petition